I'm new too and also a WoW Refugee. I have been messing around with a few of the mods here and the one you MUST have is EQ2Map. I use the autoupdating one here:
http://www.eq2interface.com/download...nOfficial.html
installing mods is easy once you know how to do it. Its a tad trickier than WoW but once you get it its no problem.
http://www.eq2interface.com/forums/f...q_new_faq_item
Good luck and have fun.
